Best Excercise and Workout Apps for Android

Health and Fitness is a major concern today. We all want to stay fit and healthy but we don’t have time to join Gym or Yoga classes. So, our Android smartphone can help us out in this situation. With your smartphone you don’t need to go anywhere just download a few exercise and workout apps and take out 15-20 minutes or more in the morning at home.

These apps have all the daily fitness tips, exercises, benefits of those exercise, etc. You can know which exercises are more beneficial to you. If you have some medical problems, you can know which exercises to avoid. These workout apps contains beautiful graphics and visuals that help you in getting the most out of it.

We have compiled a list of 5 Top Workout Apps for Android Smartphones.

1. MyFitnessPal (Free)

MyFitnessPal is one of the best fitness and calorie counter app. It actually helps you in losing your weight, maintain diet and stay fit. This app has the largest food database with over 3,000,000 foods. As it is a mobile app so you can keep track of your fitness goals throughout the day effectively.

MyFitnessPal helps you to track your fitness goals very easily and effectively. It has a good graphical interface. Its home screen shows you overall stats like your fitness goal, food, exercise and net calories. There is a news feed below.

2. Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro (£1.99)

Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro is one of the highest rated apps of its kind on Android and ideal for running, cycling, walking and any other distance-based activity.

PRO features:

Interval programs: Choose from three programs or create your own and let the audio coach guide you

Beat yourself: Set a previous workout as your goal and the audio coach will help you perform better this time

Low power mode: Increase the battery standby time by using this feature for long workouts

Pedometer: Use the step counter feature to track workouts when you don’t have GPS coverage, e.g., indoor

Customized Audio Coach: Customize how often you get audio feedback and what information is read aloud to you

Time goal: Choose a duration for your workout and the audio coach will help you reach the time goal

Calorie goal: Set a calorie goal for your workout and the audio coach will guide you

3. Instant Heart Rate (Free)

Instant Heart Rateis an advanced heart rate monitor app developed by Azumio to measure your heart rate. To monitor your heart rate just put your fingertip on your camera lens for a couple of seconds. Within seconds the app will generate your heart rate on a graph on the screen. It shows real-time PPG graph and you can easily monitor your cardio workout.

Its Pro version is also available with additional features for £1.24. The application follows a very simple technique. It tracks your finger color changes as the capillaries expands and contracts with every heart beat through your camera to track your heart rate. If your camera has flash light then it will turn on the flash light for a illuminate your finger.

4. Zombies, Run!

Zombies, Run! is a completely different and innovative app for workout. It is available for both Android and iOS. You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first steps outside. You’ve barely covered 100 yards when you hear them. They must be close. You can hear every guttural breath, every rattling groan – they’re everywhere. Zombies. There’s only one thing you can do: Run!

5. Runkeeper (Free)

Track your pace, measure workout distance, chart weight loss, crush training goals and more with LifeHacker’s 2012 Best Running App! RunKeeper is the simplest way to improve fitness, whether you’re just deciding to get off the couch for a 5k, biking every day, or even deep into marathon training.

Track your runs, walks, bike rides, training workouts and all of the other fitness activities using the GPS in your Android Phone.

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